Open letter to Brock Meeks (fwd)

[Chuck Bearden]

> Date:          Thu, 21 Aug 1997 08:49:48 -0700
> From:          Roy Tennant <rtennant at library.berkeley.edu>

> We are not in the least "afraid of debate." Our profession is founded on 
> such principles as the freedom to read, open access to information, and 
> the rights and responsibilities of a free society. I therefore find your 
> insinuation that the library profession is trying to stifle dissent in 
> general, or Mr. Burt in particular, to be insulting.

Perhaps not the profession as a whole, but as an observer of the
debate I came away with a definite sense that quite a few
individuals feel that the subject of filtering in libraries ought to
be taboo, and that even to consider it is a betrayal of our ideals
(or ideology). 

Chuck
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